Force shield issue in Lua and question about player health

First thing: I am trying to set an ability when the player has the Force shield, but it only sets it after I get hit once.

Script:
Wolfy suggested to specify the lower 8 bits of the shield or something, but I have no clue how to do that.

Second question: what's the difference between player.health and player.mo.health? Do I need to list both, or do they reference the same thing?

Sky The Destroyer said:

First thing: I am trying to set an ability when the player has the Force shield, but it only sets it after I get hit once.

Script:

Code:

addHook("ThinkFrame", do
    for player in players.iterate
        if player.powers[pw_shield]==SH_FORCE
            player.charability = CA_TELEKINESIS
        elseif player.powers[pw_shield]!=SH_FORCE
            player.charability = skins[player.mo.skin].ability
        end
    end
end)

Wolfy suggested to specify the lower 8 bits of the shield or something, but I have no clue how to do that.

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The lower 8 bits of the value set the hit points that the shield has left, so the value will only be exactly equal to SH_FORCE if there are 0 hit points left - which is why it's only working after you get hit once. What you want to do is check if the SH_FORCE has been set at all, so you use "if player.powers[pw_shield] & SH_FORCE". Also, you can leave out the check in the else block - if the player doesn't have the shield, you don't need to check again if he doesn't have it.

Sky The Destroyer said:

Second question: what's the difference between player.health and player.mo.health? Do I need to list both, or do they reference the same thing?

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player.health is used for the ring counter on the HUD, so use player.mo.health.

Probably a good idea to modify both values, if you wanted to change the player's ring count. Otherwise, for checking the current ring count value, player.mo.health is probably best.